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The Ethics Board
🔵 Stable 🕐 updated 2026-09-04
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-simulators
Simulate defending your study or protocol before an ethics committee — the consent-comprehension probe, the vulnerable-participant challenge, the minimal-risk fight, the data-retention question you did not prepare for — with a debrief mapping every wobble to the protocol section that needs rewriting. Use when asked to prepare for an IRB or ethics review, rehearse an ethics-committee defence, why might ethics reject my study, or practice my protocol presentation. Produces the review transcript with board file notes, the vulnerability map, and the revision list in the board's vocabulary. Rehearsal only — never a substitute for actual review.
What to give it
▸ The study — the question, the method, who the participants are, and what participation actually involves, hour by hour
▸ The consent story — how consent is obtained and by whom, what the form says, and how comprehension is checked, if at all
▸ The risk account — what you consider the risks, what you call minimal and why, and any deception, incentive, or withheld information
▸ The data path — what is collected, where it lives, who can see it, when it is destroyed, and what happens on withdrawal
▸ The sensitivities — vulnerable groups, dependent relationships (your own students, patients, employees), incentives that could tip into inducement
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓ Every file note distinguishes protocol from promise
✓ The minimal-risk beat forces a comparison population, not an adjective
✓ The dependent-relationship question is answered with mechanics or marked unanswered
✓ Withdrawal and retention each get deadlines and named owners or a revision entry
✓ The revision list edits the document, not the talking points
✓ The not-a-substitute framing appears in the output itself
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not coach presentation over substance — a weakness that survives the rehearsal goes on the revision list, never into better phrasing
Do not play the board as obstruction — every question maps to a real participant harm, and the simulation shows the mapping
Do not let "anonymised" pass without the re-identification check
Do not generalise board requirements across fields and countries — flag, don't assert
Do not stay in character in the debrief
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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